Improvement in covers for coin-trays



J. I. MILLER. Cover for Coin-Tray;

No. 210,621. Patented Dec. 10, 11378.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

JOHN F. MILLER, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COVERS FOR COIN-TRAYS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,621, dated December10, 1878 application filed August 19, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN I MILLER, of Decatur, county of Macon, State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in (JoinDrawers or Trays, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, whichrepresents a perspective view of a coin-drawer with my improvementsapplied.

My improvement relates to the manner of applying covers to coin-drawers;and consists in providing the drawer or tray with a pivoted slidingcover, snugly covering and closing the drawer when in place, andwhichmay bewithdrawn and folded over underneath the tray or drawer, andout of the way, for giving access to the contents of the latter when inuse, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, A represents the coin-drawer, provided withseveral semicylindrical compartments, a a, &c., for receiving andholding given quantities of coins of different sizes and denominations,and with pockets or receptacles B B, for loose coins of the difierentkinds provided for by the compartments a a, the tray or drawer in itsconstruction and general arrangement being, by preference, similar tothat described and shown in Letters Patent granted to James A. Read,April 24, 1877, No. 189,956, upon which this is an improvement. I

The arrangement of the compartments (0 a and loose-coin receptacles Bmay, however, be varied at will, according to the dictates of fancy orconvenience.

O is the cover, either made in one piece or provided with angular endplates or flanges, D D, fitting snugly over the ends or sides of thetray A, as shown. These sides or flanges D are provided withlongitudinal slots (1, extending obliquely from near the front uppercorner, at d, to near the rear lower corner or angle, at (1 and are heldunited to the ends of the trayby headed pins or screws 0, which serve topermit the movement of the cover in the direction of the slots d, andalso as the piv'ots or hinge upon which the cover can be turned overfrom its position in which it acts as a cover to a position underneaththe drawer, and vice versa, as required. By this arrangement of thepivots e, in connection with the oblique slots d, the cover is adaptednot only to fit snugly over the coin drawer or tray when in place, butalso to slide forward, un- J covering said tray, and to be turned overand made to fit snugly underneath the tray.

When thus turned underneath the tray, the combined thickness of the trayand cover will be the same as when the cover is in place on the tray,and consequently the tray or drawer is adapted to move in the samegrooves or ways with the cover in either positiona construction whicheffectually removes the cover out of the way when the tray is in use.

Having now described how my invention may be carried out in practice,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. A coin drawer or tray provided with a hinged sliding cover, appliedand operating substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the coin drawer or tray A, of the cover G,having the slotted end plates or flanges, D D, substantially as I andfor the purpose set forth.

3. The hinged sliding cover 0, provided with the obliquely-slotted endplate, D, in combination with the fixed pivotal pins 0, uniting it tothe tray A, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN F. MILLER. Witnesses FELIX B. TAIT, J AMES A. READ.

